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the last curve is due to bodily exercise; it is indeed followed by a 

 specially well-marked fall. The rise late in the evening is in both 

 cases derived from an extra meal. — In the first curve the rise at 

 7 p. m. is for some unknown reason absent. 



The last 4 curves (fig. 10) are derived from self observations. In 

 the second the rise after the last meal is absent, which was very 

 rarely the case with me; it is simply due, no doubt, to the fact that 



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36' 



37° 



36° 



37° 



36° 



37' 



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Fig. 10. 



the measurement was made more than one hour after the meal and 

 that I had been sitting still in a cold room during the interval. The 

 rise at 1 — 2 in curves 1 and 4 is due to lunch and an hour of 

 fencing; the great rise at 12 in curve 3 is the result of active bodily 

 exercise in the open air, and the same holds good for the somewhat 

 smaller rise at 12 in curve 4. The first two evenings I was sitting 

 in my room counting blood corpuscles, but on the last two I was 

 ill the heated mess-room among companions and had an extra meal 

 ill the evening; the difference appears distinctly in the curves; in 

 the first two there is an even fall in the evening, in the last but a 



